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Botticelli is documented with an independent Florentine workshop including the Fortitude commission

Around 1470 Botticelli appears as an independent Florentine master, including the Fortitude panel for the Mercanzia. This Fact is that workshop-and-civic-commission instrument, not Primavera and not a complete bottega payroll. In the causal graph this event strengthens the driver Labour-Market Tightness.

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Around 1470 Botticelli appears as an independent Florentine master, including the Fortitude panel for the Mercanzia. This Fact is that workshop-and-civic-commission instrument, not Primavera and not a complete bottega payroll.

Context

An independent shop is a labour organisation. Brand-rent harm, if any, is not forced here as a unique inequality series without wages.

Sandro Botticelli’s documented role is bounded by other offices and collaborators named in the sources below.

By about 1470 he is an independent master; Fortitude for the Tribunale della Mercanzia is a dated public heading. Assistants, including later Filippino Lippi, share labour.

Why it matters

Confidence high on independence by c.1470, medium on workshop size.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

    1. FactBotticelli is documented with an independent Florentine workshop including the Fortitude commission
    2. strengthensDriverLabour-Market Tightness

    impact weight 0.5 · Effect from 1 January 1470 · verified

    Confidence high on independence by c.1470, medium on workshop size.

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Met Heilbrunn — BotticelliMetropolitan Museum of Art · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Uffizi — Leonardo and Florentine workshop heritageGallerie degli Uffizi · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Uffizi artist context and Met Heilbrunn independently treat the early independent shop and civic work.

Established: independent shop by about 1470 including Fortitude. Not established: a scudi-per-journeyman table.

Sandro Botticelli did not file a later UNESCO form, a later Loeb colophon, or a later museum label as a personal act. A civic virtue panel is not a Sistine wall. Split 1470 from 1481. Split 1470 from 1481.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorSandro Botticelli
  2. contributed toFactBotticelli is documented with an independent Florentine workshop including the Fortitude commission
  3. strengthensDriverLabour-Market Tightness

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Factrail. (2026). Botticelli is documented with an independent Florentine workshop including the Fortitude commission. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/sb-independent-workshop-1470

https://factrail.ai/facts/sb-independent-workshop-1470

Accessed 15 October 2026.

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